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The Battalion
Wednesday, February 1,1989
The telecas t witt highlight Ihe contributions by Black-Americans
in Ihe following areas: PoBlics, Business, Economics, Art,
Education, and Sports.
Telecast will be shown on Feb. 1st in 701 Rudder at 3,5, and 7pm.
Tickets are $2.
If it makes noise tonight
come see us in the morning!
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Adjust caster, camber, steering, and toe settings as needed.
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House Speaker
polls members
on pay raise
WASHING ION (AP)— 1 exits
congressmen are finding lea hags
and scalhing leiiers in dieir mail
as ihev answer House Speaker
Jim W right s poll on whether, m
then heart of hearts. the\ realh
want to vote on a S-4f>.3<)0 pav
raise.
I mil i uesdav, Wright and
other House Democratic leaders
had indicated there would he no
House vote on the 50 perceni pa\
raise before Feb. <S. meaning it
would take ef fect automatic alls
and boost their salaries from
S<S9.300 to S i 33.000.
But now W t ight is seeking the
;id\ ic e of House members, asking
them to " I ell me how vou realh
feel, ' and promising to he tailh-
ful to their wishes while keeping
the answers confidential.
“Sure heN feeling the pressure,
sure he's feeling the heat, Rep.
Ralph Hall, a Rockwall Democrat
who has signed on to seven bills
against the pay raise, said. "He’s a
speaker, he’s a Texas speaker,
and lie’s been a friend of mine for
over 50 years, t don’t think he
ought to fade all the heat. He
might as w'ell give us a vote and
that would take the heat off of
him.”
“It’s no time for a pay raise,”
said Hall, whose mail is running
nine to one against the raise.
“This has put everybody in a
bad situation — they’re either
greedy or incompetent (fot not
voting),” Hall said.
A Democratic staffer who
spoke on condition of anonymity
said Wright’s poll has created a
firestorm for members who had
been outspoken in favor of the
raise.
“They can’t pul the phones
down,” the staffer said. “It has
created a tumult.” Staff in some
offices are “going banshee.”
Several Texas Democrats, in
cluding Reps. Martin Frost and
John Bryant of Dallas and Chat
lie Stenholm of Stamford, said
they were pleased to see the
speaker’s poll. All agree the 50
percent increase is excessive.
“I think he wants to know what
people’s true feelings are and I
think he’s getting mixed signals
from the membership,” Bryant
said. “His role in this has been
one of attempting to do what’s
right for the institution. He’s
been getting so much conflicting
advice he wants an honest
statement from each member.”
Frost said Wright has been tak
ing “all the criticism” but with the
poll “he’ll be able to find out for
certain what a majority wants.”
Frost says he’s getting “a lair
amount” of mail and the senti
ments are intense and strongly
expressed.
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Brazos needy with meals
By Ashley A. Bailey
STAFF WRITER
It’s doubtful that many, it any,
Texas A&M students know what real
hunger is.
It’s not that feeling you get at the
end of the month when you're out ol
money and have only bologna and
green beans until Mom sends more
money. And it isn’t that feeling you
get when you can’t go out to eat with
friends because of a lack of f unds.
It’s the feeling one has when there
is no money, no bologna, no green
beans, no money coming from Mom
— nothing. And that feeling is well-
known for about 500 families in Bra
zos County, Barbara Reillev, a mem
ber of the Brazos Food Bank's board
of directors, said.
“Requests for emergency food as
sistance are not rare in Brazos Coun
ty," Reilley said. “Every week, about
500 families turn to local churches
and social service agencies, asking
for food.”
Some of the needy are poor, some
are ill or elderly and some are simply
victims of a temporary crisis. But all
of them need food.
In April 1985 a group of Bryan-
College Station residents, aware ol
the communities’ needs, decided to
work toward creating a Bryan-Col-
lege Station food bank, Reillev said.
“When they organized, they onl\
had a little warehouse where tliev
stored food,” she said. “Thev col
lected loot! and distributed it to
church pantries, and then it was
given to the needs It was a vet \
small operation then. Inn it has
grown and grown.
“We (the food bank) now have a
large storage warehouse on FM 2818
that’s equipped with several large
freezers, and we now work in coop
eration with the American Red
Cross, the A&M Church ol Christ,
the Brazos Girl’s Club, the Central
Church of Christ and others. These
charitable organizations determine
who receives what tooth”
Volunteers and cooperating gro
cery stores are die heart ol the food
bank, Reillev said.
"Initially, everyone working for
the food bank was a volunteer, but in
198(1 a part-time paid staff member
was hired to manage the storage
warehouse,” she said.
Reilley said volunteers pick up
food, weigh it and take inventory,
take care of warehouse grounds and
maintenance, help edit a tiuarterlv
newsletter, publicize loot! bank
forts and make polity and planm
decisions. But getting the foodisij
ol theii higher priorities.
"Volunteers regularly cpllectfo
from participating grocery store
she said. “T his surplus food res
from mislabeling, cosmetii imp
lections, approaching pull dai
marketing changes and superik
damage t<> pac kaging."
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divided toi distribution 10 panm
Sometimes loot! is delivered dim
to pant 1 ies, she said.
Reillev said the food bank rra
heav ily on local grocers to dow
food, but food collection barrelsal
are an important food source.
“Local stores, including Kuv
Safeway, 7-11, Pal's Supermaii;
and the Shenandoah Store, bavei
lowed radio station KTAWtop
food collection barrels near tta
store exits to make ii easy fork
residents to donate food,'' shesaid.
The food bank is a non-prolii
ganization and is supported chit!
In L’nited Way, but it also recehi
grants from the Department
Housing and L’rban Developmtt
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DA backs retrial for convicted gunman
DALLAS (AP) — Randall Dale Adams, con
victed of being the gunman who shot a police of
ficer at least five times during a routine traf fic
stop, deserves a new trial, according to a prosecu
tor who earlier maintained the conviction was
just.
District Attorney John Vance told a state ap
peals court Monday that Adams deserves a new
trial on a charge accusing him of murder in Rob
ert Wood’s 1976 slaying.
Vance’s office, in a legal brief filed with the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, said it agrees
that Adams did not receive a fair trial. But Vance
said he still believes Adams is guilty of killing
Wood.
Perjured testimony may have caused the jury
to unjustly convict Adams and sentence him to
death, the prosecutor said. The death sentence
was since commuted to life. Adams has spent the
last 12 years in prison, maintaining his innocence
the whole time.
The 40-year-old Adams was convicted in the
slaying of Wood, who was shot to death Nov. 28,
1976. Another man who has since testified
against Adams confessed that he was the gun
man.
Evidence has surfaced that at least four other
key witnesses at his trial lied, authorities said.
Last fall, a documentary movie, “The Thin Blue
Line,” examined Adams’ possible innocence.
Adams’ lawyers sought for the past six months
to win a new trial. In the brief filed with the ap
peals court, Vance’s office said it “has no objec
tion to . . . the finding that (Adams) is entitled to
a new trial.”
District Court Judge Larry Baraka also has
recommended that Adams be giv en a new trial.
Baraka, after hearing three days of testimony
last November, concluded Adams was probably
innocent, that key witnesses had committed per
jury and that former Assistant District Attorney
Doug Mulder, who prosecuted Adams, sup
pressed crucial evidence that might have cleared
him.
Vance told the Dallas limes Herald he hast
read the brief his office filed, he had instmcti
assistant prosecutors to send it to the apj»
court if they felt the evidence supported Aami
claims.
“I told them to do whatever was right onil
thing. If that’s the way it was, that’s thew
was,” said Vance. They “agreed withJudgeBi
aka that there had been perjured testimonydii
ing that trial and agreed that it might very
warrant a new trial.”
The prosecutor said that if Adams is granttil
new trial, he will attempt to charge AdamsajJ
with the killing. .
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trial would be difficult because the key \vitne»
against Adams have been discredited, liuidf
lense lawyer Randy Schaffer praised the aflif
by Vance’s office.
“It’s obviously a radical shift in their position
said Schaffer.
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mnr©chf*ochf* ifilm festival
February 2* 3, and 4
Thursday. February 2
Dr. No
8:00pm
Friday. February 3
The Living Daylights
7:00pm
The Man with the Golden Gun
9:30pm
Thunderball
Midnight
Saturday. February 4
For Your Eyes Only
Special $1 Matinee
3:00pm
You Only Live Twice
7:00pm
The Spy Who Loved Me
9:30pm
Casino Royale
Midnight
Full Festival Pass ... 8 movies for $12
Single Evening Pass ... 3 movies for $5
Individual Movie Tickets ... $2
Full Festival Passes are on sale now at the Rudder Box Office.
Single Evening Passes and Individual Movie Tickets go on sale 45 minutes before each feature.
Open toTAMU students, faculty and staff, and guests of the University.
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